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Open universities: between radical promise and market reality

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by Ourania Filippakou Open universities have long symbolised a radical departure from the exclusivity of conventional universities. Similarly, Butler (2005) reminds us that the very categories of who counts as human, who is deemed grievable, and whose knowledge is legitimised are deeply political struggles.

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Dr. Marlene Tromp Named University of Vermont's 28th President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marlene Tromp The University of Vermont (UVM) Board of Trustees has selected Dr. Marlene Tromp as the institution's 28th president. Tromp, who is currently serving as president of Boise State University, will assume her new role later this summer. "Dr. from the University of Florida.

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Is it time to rethink university rankings?

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“As humans, we just love numbers, right?, When we see that a publication released their list of the top 100 universities, we say: Oh, cool, this college is here again that means they must be a really good school. Universities might not want to showcase everything. So what are the specific issues facing rankings?

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supporters of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) welcomed Howard University's announcement late last week of Dr. Ibram X. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Kendi's appointment Dr. Crystal A.

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

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Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. Fostering student success may be highly individualized, but there are four universal practices that might yield successful student outcomes.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. Rossum’s Universal Robots) , where artificial beings, created to serve, ultimately undo their creators (apek, 1920/2004). 2023; Topol, 2019).

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Doctoral Distress: Graduate Program Pressures Impact Student Mental Health

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In 2019, Nature conducted a survey of 6,320 global PhD students that revealed 36% of respondents sought help for anxiety or depression reportedly caused by their academic pursuits. A 2020 Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium survey of graduate students at 10 U.S.